Emergence of long-range angular correlations in low-multiplicity proton-proton collisions

Abstract

This Letter presents the measurement of near-side associated per-trigger yields, denoted ridge yields, from the analysis of angular correlations of charged hadrons in proton-proton collisions at $\sqrt{s}$ = 13 TeV. Long-range ridge yields are extracted for pairs of charged particles with a pseudorapidity difference of $1.4<|\Delta \eta |<1.8$ and a transverse momentum of $1<p_{\mathrm{T}}<2$ GeV/$c$, as a function of the charged-particle multiplicity measured at midrapidity. This study extends the measurements of the ridge yield to the low multiplicity region, where in hadronic collisions it is typically conjectured that a strongly-interacting medium is unlikely to be formed. The precision of the new low multiplicity results allows for the first direct quantitative comparison with the results obtained in ${\mathrm{e}}^{+}{\mathrm{e}}^{-}$ collisions at $\sqrt{s}$ = 91 GeV and $\sqrt{s}$ = 183$-$209 GeV, where initial-state effects such as pre-equilibrium dynamics and collision geometry are not expected to play a role. In the multiplicity range $8\lesssim ⟨N_{\mathrm{ch}}⟩\lesssim 24$ where the ${\mathrm{e}}^{+}{\mathrm{e}}^{-}$ results have good precision, the measured ridge yields in pp collisions are substantially larger than the limits set in ${\mathrm{e}}^{+}{\mathrm{e}}^{-}$ annihilations. Consequently, the findings presented in this Letter suggest that the processes involved in ${\mathrm{e}}^{+}{\mathrm{e}}^{-}$ annihilations do not contribute significantly to the emergence of long-range correlations in pp collisions.

19 pages, 4 captioned figures, authors from page 13, published version, figures at http://alice-publications.web.cern.ch/node/10338

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